It is interesting and a little dismaying to compare these two
passages. I suggest you open a
second browser window, if possible, and read them side by side:

The first is from Joan Peyser's 1967 essay
"The Beatles and the Beatless," later reprinted in
Jonathan Eisen's 1969 anthology of music criticism The Age of Rock
and in Peyser's 1995 collection
Music of My
Time.